I write using all my fingers, but I’ve never managed to attain full mastery, for example I never use the correct fingers to type numbers in the top row, or I struggle with special characters. Sure, the letters row I am comfortable (although I could be a bit better, I’m at 76wmp 96% accuracy) but the rest I’d love to be able to master them.
I searched a bit and found about Keybr, which seems really cool and it’s open source. Of course MonkeyType, although that looks a better tool once you’ve already feel more comfortable and not to actually learn, and it’s also open source. And then TypingClub, which has a nice tree that teaches you everything in order. What do you think it’s the best approach? Maybe first do the TypingClub lessons, then practice every once in a while with either Keybr or MonkeyType?
Trying to keep up on AOL instant messenger back in 1999 is what worked best for me.
Get really into an MMO
I used to use typing.com, but for the last two layouts I learned, just keybr. It adds keys slowly, and makes sure you “level up” to more keys in a uniform way.
I used this when I was a kid; I loved the penguin game!
Check out typecelerate.com. It will help identify letters, bigrams, and trigrams that you mess up or slow you down, then focuses your practice on them. Lots of settings to tweak, so adding symbols and numbers is easy to do.
StarCraft: Brood War.
Not even kidding. Gotta get that APM up somehow.
And you gotta be even quicker if you wanna throw in some BM.
Give me a keyboard that shocks me if I use the wrong finger to type a letter.
Personally, I like to gamify learning new skills.
Typing of the Dead is a great game to help you with accuracy. Typing games are a genre as well, and I believe theres a free Warhammer 40K typing game you can get on steam. Really improves the dopamine of getting good typing skills
i remember “playing” typer shark a long time ago. i think it still exists somewhere today.
From Dead Letter Department to Mavis Bacon Teaches Typing. Gaming is the way ✊
AOL Instant Messenger
typershark if you can find it.
i suck with the number row, too, because i was ill and in the hospital during that part of the term i took a typing class during high school. text i can do at ~ 100wpm and i’m a monster on 10-key, standard or inverted. while i am getting better in the decades since, the number row and the symbols on it still slow me down.
I just use Firefox, TextEdit, Pages, or whatever I’m typing in.
(Mac user. Replace the second one with Notepad and the third one with Word if you know Microsoft stuff more.)
Mastery is a moving target. Better to recognise we are just always learning. We can always improve.
